Record Details
Water Quality in the Upper Bear River: Problems and Mitigation
USU Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Water Quality in the Upper Bear River: Problems and Mitigation |
| Description | The Bear River Drainage lies within three states (Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah). The receptor of the upper basin water is Bear Lake, which is a lake ecosystem of national importance. The lake contains four species of fish found nowhere else in the world and they are dependent upon the lake's high quality oligotrophic conditions (quoted and paraphrased from document). Previous investigations on the Bear River (314 Phase I, Bear Lake Regional Commission, 1985) and its tributaries above Bear Lake (Thomas Fork, Twin Creek, and Bridger Creek) (Figure 1-1) indicated mass gains (kg/year) for the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus, as well as total suspended solids. A more detailed investigation, funded by Utah as part of the Bear Lake Preservation Project (BLRC, 1986-87), substantiated the previous investigations and provided more detail. For example, it was... |
| Creator | Bear Lake Regional Commission Ecosystems Research Institute and Bear River RC&D |
| Contributor | Bear Lake Regional Commission Ecosystems Research Institute and Bear River RC&D |
| Publisher | Bear Lake Regional Commission Digitized by : Utah State University, Quinney Library |
| Coverage | Bear River Valley, Box Elder County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5771190/ ; Bear River, Box Elder County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5771173/ ; Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5585000/ ; Franklin County, Idaho, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5593547/ ; Caribou County, Idaho, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5588082/ ; Oneida County, Idaho, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5602844/ ; Uinta County, Wyoming, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5841693/ ; Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5830383/ ; Rich County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780377/ ; Summit County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5782267/ ; Cache County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5772317/ ; Box Elder County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5771875/ ; 1990-1999; 20th century; |
| Subject | Water quality -- Bear River (Utah-Idaho);Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental Aspects; Bear River (Utah-Idaho) |
| Format | Reports; application/pdf; 4827529 Bytes |
| Source | Utah State University, Quinney Natural Resources Research Library, TD 223.6 .B399X 1991 |
| Relation | Know Your Watershed Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Libary, S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney BARN Collection |
| Type | Text; |
| Rights | Public Domain Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library |
| Date | 1991 |
| Identifier | http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Bear/id/36444 |
